【人生】站在25岁的路口向前看

我曾经的梦想是快快到25岁，我给自己设想了一个路径——25岁的我，从graduate school毕业，有一份稳定的、我喜欢的工作，有一个爱的人，还有一只可爱的狗狗。我们一起努力存钱按揭房子，然后一起吃遍世界上所有的好吃的。然而现实中的25岁，从graduate school毕业的我，没有喜欢的工作，没有能力养一只狗，离赚钱买房子的目标还太远，我甚至买水果都要等到whole foods打折的那一天。

我对自己的25岁谈不上失望，却绝不是喜欢的。

高中同学换车了，初中同学生孩子了，大学同学创业了……怎么看，我都是那个25岁的loser。我沮丧，我焦虑，我自我怀疑。

直到，我看到了Aaron Agius的故事。“创业大亨”Aaron是Louder.Online的联合创始人，最近他在LinkedIn分享了他25岁的故事。

（截图来自Aaron的Linkedin）

I was 25 and I hated everything about my life.

I knew I had two choices: make a big change or stay stuck in my rut forever.

So I threw it all away.

I sold all of my stuff, left a great paying IT job and booked the first flight I could to Thailand.

Moving abroad without a safety net was scary at first, but it reinforced something I’ve always believed:

If you want to live like the 1%, you can’t behave like the 99%.

I was a "99% success story" on the outside, but on the inside, I was miserable.

Changing that reality meant taking huge leaps outside my comfort zone.

I didn't have housing lined up before I got to Thailand.

I didn't speak the language or know anybody locally.

But I found my footing.

I found a place to live, and fell in love with the Thai lifestyle.

I discovered my passion for marketing as I searched for ways to make long-term travel a reality.

I built a new career for myself through our agency.

Now, I’m proud to say I’m living a life I’m passionate about. A life of opportunities.

If that’s something you want, ask yourself:

Am I living a 99% life?

Or am I making the tough choices needed to live like the 1%?

老实说，大多数人应该都或多或少对自己25岁的状态感到不满足，依据不满足的程度，大概可以分成不喜欢、讨厌，或是觉得还可以更好。在这些感到不满足的人当中，大部分人只是想想，抱怨一下，发发牢骚，然后继续按照既定的不满足的路线走下去，这就是所谓的99%life。只有那1%，敢于放下一切，敢于抛弃不喜欢、不满足的部分，为自己的1%life放手一搏。

说到这里，故事就不能免俗的鸡汤了。很早以前，我看过一个TED演讲，主题是“Your life begins when you step out of your comfort zone.”，那个演讲给了我非常多启发，人总是趋向于在让自己舒适的环境中生活，却忽略了提升自己的途径唯有不断突破，不断走出自己的“comfort zone”，不断挑战不可能。世界这么大，你就不想去看看么？